Recording/Mics

[JoeyNukes]

I'm looking into trying to record some guitar stuff and I was wondering what mics would produce the best results?

[Blizzard7]

At 2/7/07 06:47 PM, JoeyNukes wrote: I'm looking into trying to record some guitar stuff and I was wondering what mics would produce the best results?

I don't record stuff, but I got this crappy mic from radio shack.

[Rucklo]

I have a shure PG81, wich is supposed to be good at recording acoustic guitars. If you are recording voice and guitar at the same time, you might want to concider finding two band-microphones, and place them so the "dead fiealds" (where they pick up as little soundwaves as possible) face the source that it´s not supposed to record.

[pitbulljones]

are you miking an amp or an acoustic?

with amps, you want a capacitor mic, or a condenser, dependng on tone, using either a stereo pair, or coincident set up. place either mic in a triangle around 3-6 feet from the amp, they can either be on axis or off axis, placing one behind the back sometimes help to. basically with amps, there is no set way as the guitar tone has changed so many times. either way you my wanna think about patching a compressor in only on a light setting just to even the sound out on the recording, not too much that you ruin a good take.

acoustic guitrs are similar, apply the triangle rule, don't point it directly at the sound hole, you'll want one roughly half way up the neck, possibly more, and another point towards the saddlefrom underneathe or in front of the guitar, tone can be change by changin the distance of both mics, moving to diofferent points on the guitar. again a little compression helps, possibly some mild 'air' eq and a ducker/gate, but use these with far less than you would in the mixdown. if these positions fail for the acoustic one spot that gets a good take id over the players shoulder as a guitarsist hears a good sound its a nice fall back point.

hope that helps.

[Love-Hate-War]

I DI from my POD cause I is lazy =]

[pitbulljones]

i have a emulated line/mic out from my amp, ive never used it for recording but i know it works a dream when ive ptche it through speakers. or i just use the rpx-400 as its usb or mic level output. but its good to know how to mic stuff up.

[Love-Hate-War]

Or listen to pitbull, but if your gonna invest in a condenser mic, be prepared to spend some serious dollar. Though it would be worth investing in a good condenser, they are pretty much the "all round mic" (I use that term loosely) Dont let anyone tell you that a dynamic is an allround mic, THEY ARE LYING!!!

One more thing to add to pittbull, generally (i mean generally, recording i sall about experimenting remember!) use a large diagragm condenser for mic'ing amps, and a small diaphragm for acoustics.

But I sometimes find just a SM57 in front of the amp works perfectly fine sometimes, with maybe a cheeky condenser behind for picking up room ambience.

[OrphanShadow]

I Have no prior experience with acoustics, but if its an amp your recording, Its pretty simple.

Grab yourself Shure SM57, and mess around With the positioning of the mic. If you want to capture the full tone of the amp, your gonna need to have the mic real close to the speaker. and from there, just work with the positions until you've found the magic spot.

Sorry if i inadvertently repeated any of the stuff the guys already said